Inside Islamic State’s arsenal: Jihadis using HELL CANNON in northern Iraq and MAKING bombs on INDUSTRIAL SCALE in these shocking photographs.

General Rasool has described the street fighting as "intense", but added: "Our forces are fighting deep in the west, the enemy is broken."

The country’s elite, US trained, Counter-Terrorism Forces have spearheaded the Mosul offensive on the left bank of the city, storming the Southern district.

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The country’s elite, US trained, Counter-Terrorism Forces have spearheaded the Mosul offensive

General Stephen Townsend, the commander of Operation Inherent Resolve, said: “Since August 2014 the US-led Coalition has conducted more than 10,000 air strikes against Isis targets in Iraq and trained and equipped more than 70,000 Iraqi forces to support Iraqi operations”.

They also teamed up with the Federal police to raid buildings in western Mosul to assassinate jihadis.

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US led strikes have helped to diminish ISIS capabilities in Mosul

UN aid workers are extremely concerned about the health of the 750,000 citizens trapped in Mosul. It has been reported there is no food, no clean water, no gas for heating, no medicine and no health services.

It is claimed militants have burned down the market in the city and are setting fire to private houses in order to create a smoke screen to hide ISIS fighters from air attacks.